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SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET
Do you think I could buy Sid
Vicious' corpse? I'd like to have the
chain and lock he wore and hang his
skeleton in my room.
When I get my hair cut,
I can glue my hair on his
skull and spike it up.
How much do you think
it would cost? If I can't
buy the corpse, how
about his tombstone?
Ehren Sinister
Valley, PA
ER
MAL
I think Michael Jackson aiready owns
it all. Ted.
DON'T DO IT SID'S WAY
While flipping through numerous
past issues of your magazine, I am
quite disturbed to find page after
page advertising Sid Vicious 1-shirts.
My question is, why? Because he
was such an idiot? It is a sad sight
indeed when we see humanity glori-
fying a heroin addict, not to mention
an incredibly untalented musician.
Let us destroy all of these lame rem-
nants of the past and screen some-
one like Glenn Danzig on our shirts.
mit trap on
co
Here is a guy who knows what's
going down. Sid Vicious is dead, and
please don't forget it.
Mr. Happy
Indianapolis, IN
MOMMY HIPPEST
A few weeks ago I let my mother
borrow one of my shirts. That was the
worst mistake of my life. Now she tells
all of her friends she's a skater mom,
and borrows my shirts whenever
possible. So all you other skaters out
there, don't let your parents borrow
your clothes. Ever!
John Fisher
San Anslemo, CA
Now, come on. What about all those
Bermuda shorts that dad handed
down to you? Started a whole look,
now didnit? T-ed
SKATEROPOLIS
Ya ever been to those mini-towns
out in the sticks that say pop. 100
"unincorporated"? That means that
the town is too small to have a local
government. Well, I was thinkin' a
bunch of skaters (pros, ams, manus,
owners, etc.) should get together and
built a town-like area with houses,
skate shops, stores, maybe a school,
but mostly pools, ramps, ditches etc.
This is probably way far fetched, but
I think all the big honchos should
think about it.
Wondering
J. DeMartino
Somewhere in AZ
Yeah, that sun can get pretty hot in
Arizona. You'd better go find some
shade, J. Ted
BELIEVE IT OR NOT
I'm pissed, I just read the letter
from the August issue by Dennis
Childers to my parents (laughing
through the whole thing). Afterwards,
Malone
1570
they said, "Don't believe that junk.
All letters to any editors are fake, the
magazines just make them up." I
tried to explain that they were wrong
about THRASHER, but they wouldn't
listen. Then I began to think, I have
read some pretty unbelievable letters
in your mag. Please tell me, my
parents were wrong, weren't they?
Matt Boyd
Camden, ME
Your parents were wrong. We could
never make up letters as whacked as
these. Ted.
HALI-FACTS
In the August 1988
On-Board section it says
that rumored to be
building a half-pipe (still)
was Halifax, Nova
Scotia. This is no longer
a rumor. There are now
three city ramps and one
mini ramp. There are at
least ten privately owned
ramps. The skate scene
is very hot in Halifax. I would like to
invite everyone from out of town to
check it out-I'm sure you'll have a
great time.
Sonny Woodworth
Halifax, Nova Scotia
BLOWN AWAY
The other day I was practicing
McTwists on my friend's ramp when
this 200 mile an hour gust of wind
came along and ripped my board out
of my hands. As I continued around
in the twist, my nose and my board.
had a brief but intimate relationship.
Between the wind and the impact of
wood and bone, a bit of force was
created. I was wondering if anybody
in western Pennsylvania or Ohio had
seen my stick or my nose. If so, just
place my nose on my board, point
them eastward and give them a
push. I'm sure my board can follow
my nose. It always knows. Thanks.
Stero Robro
Central, PA
That's called a McTwister Ted.
SKATING IS A GAS
I have a weird question. Let's say
there is a skater (me) going about ten
or fifteen miles per hour down the
street. Say I'm with my friends, we're
skating in a single file line and one
of us farts (me). How come all of us
can smell it? You'd think it would go
behind you, not in front of you.
Leeky
Camarillo, CA
That's just the sipstream theory at
work. Ted
180° NOSE STALL
by Marty Jiminez
STEP BY STEP
1. Approach the transition in a fakie.
2. Grab your board and the coping simultaneously. Grab your
board as if you were doing a layback air in reverse.
3. At this point, use some muscle and pull yourself and your board
around 180° so that you end up with the nose of your board stalled
on the coping.
4. Now, while still holding the rail, twist yourself back around and
roll on down the transition.
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